Axis config question/problem ...

["CHEN,SHIH-CHANG (HP-NewJersey,ex2)" <sh...@hp.com>]

Hi,

I am developing a soap client that uses either HTTP or SMTP. I have a
SMTPSender to send a request and use a Pop3Fetcher to retrieve the
response as a email. Both of them extend
org.apache.axis.handlers.BasicHandler.
Following is the client-config.wsdd file I am using:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deployment name="defaultClientConfig"
            xmlns="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/"
            xmlns:java="http://xml.apache.org/axis/wsdd/providers/java">

 	<transport name="smtp"
pivot="java:org.apache.axis.transport.smtp.SMTPSender">
		<parameter name="from-address"
value="shih-chang_chen@hp.com"/>
		<responseFlow>
			<handler name="receiver"
type="java:org.apache.axis.transport.smtp.Pop3Fetcher">
				<parameter name="parm1"
value="shih-chang_chen@hp.com"/>
			</handler>
		</responseFlow>
 	</transport>

	<transport name="http"
pivot="java:org.apache.axis.transport.http.HTTPSender"/>

</deployment>

The problem I found is that the parameters of transport pivot are not
populated to the 
java instnace. For this case, if i invoked this.getOption( "from-address" )
inside
SMTPSender.invoke(), I got a null. However, I can get the correct value when
I invoke
this.getOption( "parm1" ) in Pop3Fetcher.invoke().

In the code of org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDDeployableItem, the
parameters are
populated to new instance in WSDDDeployableItem.makeNewInstance method by 
invoking h.setOptions(getParametersTable()). But this mehtod is overriden by

org.apache.axis.deployment.wsdd.WSDDTargetedChain withod invoking 
pivot.setOptions(getParametersTable()).

Is this for some design purpose ? Or, is there any problem in my
configuration ?
By the schema of wsdd, it looks like parameters are allowed for transport...
Am i correct ?

Thanks,

ShihChang Chen